Newsday reports that the mass exodus of senior CIA staff is no coincidence. Bush has ordered a purge of CIA employees who don't agree with the president's agenda. As we noted below, this is incredibly dangerous. Whatever you think of the CIA, it does NOT exist to skew its intelligence to any political agenda. They're the agency that it supposed to privately tell the president "the way it is," then the president can do what he wants with the info. In this case, Bush is demanding that the CIA tell him what he wants to hear, and that is not only incredibly stupid, it's a very serious risk to our national security for years to come.
If we had a real Democratic party, they'd be all over this. Harry Reid, where are you?
From Newsday:
The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.
"The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."
